Re: [PATCH v4] sched/freq: move call to cpufreq_update_util

[Vincent Guittot]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 11:18, Vincent Guittot
<vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 10:55, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 06:07:31PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > update_cfs_rq_load_avg() calls cfs_rq_util_change() everytime pelt decays,
> > > which might be inefficient when cpufreq driver has rate limitation.
> > >
> > > When a task is attached on a CPU, we have call path:
> > >
> > > update_load_avg()
> > >   update_cfs_rq_load_avg()
> > >     cfs_rq_util_change -- > trig frequency update
> > >   attach_entity_load_avg()
> > >     cfs_rq_util_change -- > trig frequency update
> > >
> > > The 1st frequency update will not take into account the utilization of the
> > > newly attached task and the 2nd one might be discard because of rate
> > > limitation of the cpufreq driver.
> >
> > Doesn't this just show that a dumb rate limit in the driver is broken?
>
> But the rate limit may come from HW constraints that forces to wait
> let say 4ms or even 10ms between each frequency update.
>
> >
> > > update_cfs_rq_load_avg() is only called by update_blocked_averages()
> > > and update_load_avg() so we can move the call to
> > > cfs_rq_util_change/cpufreq_update_util() into these 2 functions. It's also
> > > interesting to notice that update_load_avg() already calls directly
> > > cfs_rq_util_change() for !SMP case.
> > >
> > > This changes will also ensure that cpufreq_update_util() is called even
> > > when there is no more CFS rq in the leaf_cfs_rq_list to update but only
> > > irq, rt or dl pelt signals.
> >
> > I don't think it does that; that is, iirc the return value of
> > ___update_load_sum() is 1 every time a period lapses. So even if the avg
> > is 0 and doesn't change, it'll still return 1 on every period.
> >
> > Which is what that dumb rate-limit thing wants of course. But I'm still
> > thinking that it's stupid to do. If nothing changes, don't generate
> > events.
>
> When everything (irq, dl, rt, cfs) is 0, we don't generate events
> because update_blocked_averages is no more called because
> rq->has_blocked_load is clear
>
> With current implementation, if cfs is 0 but not irq, dl or rt, we
> don't call cpufreq_update_util because it is only called through cfs
>
> >
> > If anything, update_blocked_avgerages() should look at
> > @done/others_have_blocked() to emit events for rt,dl,irq.
>
> other_have_blocked can be set but no decay happened during the update
> and we don't need to call cpufreq_update_util
>
> >
> > So why are we making the scheduler code more ugly instead of fixing that
> > driver?

Also, I think that calling cfs_rq_util_change in
attach_entity_load_avg is not optimal because the attach can happen at
a child level before it has been propagated down to root
So I'm working on trying to remove it from attach_entity_load_avg and
keep it in update_load_avg. this would help cleaning the ugly

-       } else if (decayed && (flags & UPDATE_TG))
-               update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, 0);
+       } else if (decayed) {
+               cfs_rq_util_change(cfs_rq, 0);
+
+               if (flags & UPDATE_TG)
+                       update_tg_load_avg(cfs_rq, 0);
+       }
 }